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Marc Ambinder - Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal and a contributing editor at The Atlantic. More

Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal. He previously served as the politics editor, and is now a contributing editor, for The Atlantic, where he curated the influential Politics channel on TheAtlantic.com and contributed to the magazine. He was also a chief political consultant to CBS News. Earlier, at NJ's Hotline, Ambinder was the founding editor of "Hotline On Call," a pathbreaking political news blog. He also worked as a producer and reporter for the ABC News Political Unit and was one of the founders of ABC's "The Note." Born in New York City, raised in Central Florida, Ambinder is a 2001 graduate of Harvard and lives in Washington, D.C.

Whiter Macaca?

By Marc Ambinder
Aug 3 2007, 12:18 PM ET Comment

CHICAGO -- So what became of S.R. Sidarth, the unusually coiffed campaign tracker for Jim Webb who drew the career-damaging epithet from then-Sen. George Allen?

Well, he's turned up at YearlyKos as a panelist in a roundtable about "Three People Who Changed Congress." The two others are the former intern who leaked the Mark Foley e-mails, Lane Hudson, and that guy who was gang-tackled by Allen staffers for "asking the questions the media refused to ask."

When he's not recounting his 15 minutes of fame, Sidarth is working in the communications shop of Gov. Bill Richardson's presidential campaign.

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